Originally Posted by Pokerface

From the high school teacher in me:
The possessive form of a gender neutral pronoun is "its", not "it's" "It's" is short for "it is".
"Hackneyed" is defined as "Using definitions at the outset of your essay".
"And now I'll explain why" and other phrases of its ilk are redundant. Of course you're going to explain why; at least you'd better if you want the essay to be worth anything.
Headings Should Have Their Most Important Words Capitalized.
"Commonly" and "Uncommonly" sound funny to me. Consider "Such things are common" and "... the many uncommon alien strategies".

From the NSPlayer in me:
Very well written. I think the part about stopping the construction of hive two should be bolded and made to blink.
You writing about stroking egos was pretty funny. It's not the easiest thing to get a compliment out of you, you know.
Very nice job on the advantages and disadvantages, particularly in noting the expansion capabilities of both teams.

I ran grammar check and did little else. If it didn't catch its and it's, sorry. I spent 5 hours from 1-6 AM writing it, and I had little drive to double check the grammar and punctuation beyond hitting grammar check on Word and letting it find most of the mistakes I made for me. If some of it sounds odd, it probably does. Next time I'll run it by an English Professor to make sure IT'S correct. The headings were altered, so that's not my fault. For the definitions, that was my intention to have them at the beginning, otherwise people wouldn't understand why I was talking about what I was talking about. Remember this was to be informative, not show off my awe-inspiring writing skills. :P

As for the content remarks, thanks. I spent a lot of time trying to make sure I covered everything that I should have. I don't compliment people on TG often because I don't think anyone does anything extraordinary often enough to do require it. I don't have to beg people to do things, they just do it. On normal pubs sometimes you have to work to get marines to go to Point B from Point A. When someone kills a fade I normally say gj, or they keep an rt alive or something. I expect more from players here, so they don't get their ego stroked for doing what I expect as a baseline.